04.23 - Christ Jesus the Completion of Revelation

(23) Christ Jesus the Completion of Revelation

Christ is the consummation of revelation; in Him revelation is final and complete: not final to historical and scientific progress, but to faith and hope and salvation; not final to apprehension, but to faith and experience. It is a redemptive and religious finality final for all that concerns the Divine will, purpose, and action for the world’s salvation: final in kind not in degree, in fact and not in measure, in purpose and not in compass. All is revealed, but not everything implied in the “ All is realised; the whole counsel of God is declared, but not everything pertaining to the “ whole counsel “ is experienced. Man}- things arc yet to be made known, but everything necessary to salvation has been revealed all that faith needs, but not all that knowledge craves. The revelation is also final, because it brings us into loving, trustful union with the true God and eternal life, that we may be one with Him, as He is one with the Father. Here, then, is finality in respect of Christ’s person and redeeming work, and whatever comes to us now must come to us through Him, and come by way of appropriation and not by revelation. Hence Christ be comes to us the free, final, and effective revelation of God for the purpose of the world’s redemption.